Zdenek Kotala wrote:
Robert Haas píše v út 27. 01. 2009 v 09:45 -0500:

1) Space reservation
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-12/msg00886.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-01/msg02031.php

This patch is mandatory for page online conversion and MUST TO be part
of postgreSQL 8.4. if not ... then we will be at the beginning next
year.

I sent updated version today.
I thought we pretty much had agreement that space reservation was not
a good solution to anything, although I admit I'm not quite clear on
what alternative was being proposed.

Maybe I miss something, but space reservation was selected as a best
way. Please, Could you point me related mailing thread?

Space reservation is the way to go, but I remain of the opinion that trying to predict the future is futile. When we know what we need (= around the beginning of 8.5 beta), we can backpatch a patch to reserve the needed amount of space on pages. It has to be dead simple to consider applying it to a stable branch, but something like "reserve X bytes for heap pages and Y bytes for b-tree pages if pre_upgrade_mode GUC is set" should be OK. And we don't want to do anything more complicated than that anyway before we know what we need.

(http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/49425d07.6030...@enterprisedb.com)

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